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Doing work is one thing. Proving you did it is another. For the latter task, California-based Netwrix just released Auditor for SharePoint.

The company, founded in 2006, claims it is the first to offer complete visibility into every part of SharePoint changes, whether they are made to security, content or the farm configuration, as well as changes to systems that may be integrated with SharePoint, such as SQL servers or active directories.

In contrast, Netwrix says, other tools on the market provide point solutions for SharePoint only, and they often rely on SharePoint's built-in auditing functionality. CEO Michael Fimin says those native capabilities are not enough.

Ever since former SAP visionary and executive board member Vishal Sikka abruptly walked off of his job at the world’s third largest software company last month, industry watchers have been wondering what he’ll do next.

“I’m going to Disney World,” would have been an unlikely answer, as his former employer is holding its user conference, Sapphire Now, in Orlando, Fla. this week.

Your information is the lifeblood of your organization. It’s content you create, it’s content you obtain from customers, suppliers, partners. And there’s usually a lot of it. That’s where solutions like SharePoint and Office 365 come in -- to help you manage it all.

But before you start storing every last piece of information you have, ask yourself if it’s really something you need. Just because you can save and store almost limitless amounts of content, doesn’t mean you should.

It’s a relationship that’s rarely found in the world of enterprise technology. And quite frankly, until you talk to enough of Teradata’s customers, it’s hard to believe it exists.

But last year at Teradata’s Partners user conference we witnessed it — not by talking to users the company had hand-picked for us to meet, but from conversations with the guys or gals who stood in front or behind us as we waited in lines for our morning joe, on the many long walks from the hotel to the conference center and at lunch, when we sat to chow-down with strangers. The folks we spoke to, almost without exception, professed their love for Teradata.

The days of tired, old legacy applications developed by Oracle and loved by few will soon be over. At least that’s what SAP has in mind.

And in the age of cloud, collaboration and app stores, does it make sense for a software company to sit in some ivory tower building solutions that tell you how to do your job? Or would it be smarter for a vendor that has deep industry and development experience to partner with customers and developers to build products and services that delight?

The answer, we think, is plain to anyone; yet it’s not an approach that many software or solution vendors have taken.

CEOs Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff, of Oracle and Salesforce, respectively, may not be feeling anxious this week. But maybe they should be. After all, there’s a calm that neither being the world’s highest paid CEO nor Satya Nadella’s newest BFF can bring.

Especially when the competition is about to change the game on you. And that’s precisely what will be happening at Sapphire Now, SAP’s user conference in Orlando, Fla. this week.

Granted, the fact that something big is about to happen at SAP shouldn’t come as a surprise. There have been plenty of clues, including the notable departure of visionary Vishal Sikka. And now another senior exec, Peter Graf, announced he has parted ways with the company, too.

Two more cities are capitalizing on advanced analytics and big data technology to manage their transportation, water and emergency services. IBM announced today that Minneapolis, Minn. and Montpellier, France have both signed up for its Smarter Cities program.

The initiatives include cloud-based management centers that bring together IBM’s portfolio of Intelligent Operations software and IBM Global Business Services expertise.

We know that we don’t have to tell you that the day when every worker at your company stores his content in the cloud isn’t too far away. In fact, at some enterprises, it’s already here.

A study conducted by Forrester Research reveals that 70 percent of employees use some kind of enterprise file sync and sharing (EFSS) service every single day — and that nearly one in five use it hourly.

Needless to say, this presents an unprecedented opportunity for vendors, which might well explain why the market is so dense. According to some estimates there are as many as 1,000 of them vying for our business.

Try as we might, there’s no way we can keep up with even a tenth of them. It seems that every time we write an article about EFSS, we get three to five vendors we’ve never heard of pitch us on stories.

Much as we might like to give you the skinny on each, it’s just not feasible. So what we’re going to do instead is keep you up to date on those that we feel are market makers or are doing something unique and especially interesting.

Today’s governance, risk and compliance landscape is complicated and difficult to understand, let alone implement and maintain. Those under pressure to maintain environments held to standards set by external regulatory control (and usually internal policies and best practices) have a difficult task.

If you've been at an organization where compliance, IT and the business seem to speak different languages when they talk about information management, you know how difficult it is to get them all on the same page. The task is so difficult at most organizations that each typically does their own work -- blinders on -- in isolation from one or both of the other two in an effort to simply get something done. The results for the organization range from less than optimal (wasted time and money) to disastrous (smoking crater fines/penalties and massive operational disruptions).

When working with clients, I liken this state of affairs to whatever the political debate du jour is on the news -- where both sides are seemingly speaking different languages and there’s no agreement on the common ground.

OK, maybe we’re exaggerating a bit with the headline. The folks at the corner store aren’t likely to be implementing Documentum anytime soon. But midmarket companies in regulated industries, which have found the Rolls Royce of ECM systems out of reach in the past, may very well be able to afford to reap the its benefits today.

Earlier this month EMC IIG (Information Intelligence Group) introduced two new cloud-based offerings based on their best in class Documentum solutions for energy and engineering and life sciences. They are pre-packaged, preconfigured, cloud-based offerings for the midmarket.

If all (or even most) systems projects went well, we wouldn't need to talk about this subject …. But they don’t, and those failures compromise the progress and integrity of the information world.

The selection and application of formal methodologies is an important ingredient in the success or failure of most projects. In today’s automation project world, choosing the right project methodology sometimes seems as important as the project itself. Choose the right methodology from among the top contenders -- Six Sigma, Agile, Lean and SDLC -- and, we are told, you are on the road to success. Choose poorly and you are alone on the windswept plain of project failure or mediocrity at best.

Documentum isn’t going anywhere, so say EMC Information Intelligence Group President Rick Devenuti and his boss David Goulden. Though each gives different reasons for why the relationship works, both men insist that the businesses are better together.

Goulden, CEO of EMC’s Information Infrastructure group (a.k.a. EMC) which owns IIG (a.k.a. Documentum), says that the division is “highly profitable.” We’re not going to argue with him on this point, he’s an accountant.

Microsoft promised to bring analytics to a billion screens last February when it finally launched Power BI for Office 365. Starting this week, Office 365 users will be able to do both data mining and predictive forecasting.

According the blog post announcing the upgrade, users will be able to look into the future behavior of their products and business. And they don’t have to be data scientists either.

Extracting useful insights from data is one thing. Understanding those insights — quickly and without the help of a data scientist — is another. That's why Toronto, Ontario-based Panorama Software developed Necto 14, an infographics-based business intelligence data discovery tool.

"Necto 14 introduces a new form of BI-related visualization, BI infographics," Panorama founder/CTO Rony Ross told CMSWire. Ross said these kinds of infographics are "extremely effective visualizations because they use familiar business visuals to aggregate huge amounts of data, and they speak the language of the organization."

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